The Ferrari Roma Spider is a timelessly elegant, high-performance car, but also a contemporary take on the chic, pleasure-seeking Italian lifestyle of the 1950s and 60s. This spider carries over the proportions, volumes and specifications of the Ferrari Roma’s hugely successful concept, but what makes it so striking is the adoption of a soft top, a solution making a welcome return to the Prancing Horse range on a front-engined car 54 years after the launch of the 1969 365 GTS4.
The shape of beauty
Breathtaking Looks
The sober, spare front of the car looks as if it were sculpted from a single block of metal, creating an overhanging, sharknose effect. Engine cooling is guaranteed by the perforated surfaces, creating a new interpretation of the grille concept. The edges of the front grille flow into two linear, full-LED headlights, which are traversed by a horizontal DRL strip that brings a sense of tension to the entire circumference of the car.
A bespoke material available in numerous optional finishes
A bespoke material has been used for the Ferrari Roma Spider’s soft-top. Special fabric weaves were selected and developed in colour combinations that highlight the car’s twin souls, one more elegant and the other sportier. The automatic fabric soft top guarantees occupant comfort on a par with the retractable hard top system. The five-layer fabric dampens wind and road noise, making it quiet even at high speeds. During development, special attention was also paid to reducing the ballooning effect typical of soft tops.
Z-Shaped movement
The soft-top mechanism was designed to be light yet resilient: its Z-shaped movement folds the soft top away in a mere 13.5 seconds and up to a maximum speed of 60 km/h. When stowed, the roof occupies a height of just 220mm, which is the lowest in the category, and that, in turn, ensures a roomy boot (a class-leading 255 litres with the top up).
Designed by the Ferrari Styling Centre headed by Flavio Manzoni, the Ferrari Roma Spider is a 2+ spider which boasts a sophisticated fabric soft top, designed enhance the flawless proportions of the Ferrari Roma without modifying that car´s elegantly flowing silhouette.
A luxurious lounge
For the Ferrari Roma Spider´s cabin, the Ferrari Styling Centre designers took the same approach to volumes and forms introduced on the Ferrari Roma. Two separate spaces, one each for driver ans passenger, were created in an evolution of the dual cockpit concept, which has its roots deep in the marque´s history with cars from the 1970s. The innovative look of this dual cockpit was achieved by extending the philosophy applied to the dash to the entire cabin. Hence the vision of two modules that wrap around driver and passenger and that extend integrate with the two rear seats.
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Award-Winning V8 Turbo Engine
The Ferrari Roma Spider is powered by an engine belonging to the V8 turbo family named “international Engine of the Year” for four consecutive years and also voted “Best Engine of the Last 20 years” in 2018. The 3,855cc power unit can punch out 620 cv at 7.500 rpm, the equivalent of 161 cv/l, which it combines with the flexibility of low-end pick-up, thanks to 80% of the torque being available just 1900 rpm.
Shaped by the wind
The adoption of a soft top and its indirect impact on the car´s bodywork geometries provided the starting point for the aero development of the Ferrari Roma Spider. To retain the Ferrari Roma´s low drag, combined with the possibility of generating efficient downforce, the line of the roof and its curvature over the longitudinal section were subjected to in-depth CFD analysis.
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